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07-28-2016, 05:27 AM
GENEVA: **rthest Nigeria is “close” to famine with hundreds of thousands trapped without help, and must be declared a “top emergency” by the UN, said Medical charity Doctors Without Borders on Wednesday.
The charity k**wn by its French acronym MSF said the region devastated by Boko Haram’s Islamist insurgency had between 500,000 and 800,000 people trapped in areas that can**t be reached by humanitarian workers.
A UN “top emergency” designation -- which would put Nigeria on a list with Syria, Iraq and Yemen -- would immediately mobilise more resources to a crisis that has **t received nearly e**ugh attention, MSF said. Boko Haram attacks in the **rtheast have declined over the last year, but MSF’s emergency programme manager Hugues Robert **ted that aid workers were still limited in where they can go.
Some cities in the **rtheast, such as Banki and Bama, had gone up to 18 months without any humanitarian deliveries before aid agencies and the UN arrived in June. “What was extremely shocking was the level of severe acute malnutrition,” Robert said, adding that communities faced “close to a famine situation.” Many areas can only be accessed under escort from the Nigerian army, he told reporters in Geneva after returning from Bor** state, the epicentre of the Boko Haram insurgency.
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The charity k**wn by its French acronym MSF said the region devastated by Boko Haram’s Islamist insurgency had between 500,000 and 800,000 people trapped in areas that can**t be reached by humanitarian workers.
A UN “top emergency” designation -- which would put Nigeria on a list with Syria, Iraq and Yemen -- would immediately mobilise more resources to a crisis that has **t received nearly e**ugh attention, MSF said. Boko Haram attacks in the **rtheast have declined over the last year, but MSF’s emergency programme manager Hugues Robert **ted that aid workers were still limited in where they can go.
Some cities in the **rtheast, such as Banki and Bama, had gone up to 18 months without any humanitarian deliveries before aid agencies and the UN arrived in June. “What was extremely shocking was the level of severe acute malnutrition,” Robert said, adding that communities faced “close to a famine situation.” Many areas can only be accessed under escort from the Nigerian army, he told reporters in Geneva after returning from Bor** state, the epicentre of the Boko Haram insurgency.
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